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Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2026 9:14 pm
by Man in Space
śeeiôqj
[ˈtə̀ɨ̯ʃǿ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’

Loss of pharyngeal coärticulation

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xǫtán
[ɸəˈáŋ]
‘catkin orange’

Loss of intervocalic voiced stops

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:39 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
śeeiôqj
[ˈtə̀jɨ̯ʃǿ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’

breaking of diphthongs.

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xǫtán
[wəˈáŋ]
‘catkin orange’

[ɸ] > [w]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2026 11:33 pm
by foxcatdog
śeeiôqj
[ˈtə̀jɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’

Final vowels lost

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xǫtán
[gʷəˈáŋ]
‘catkin orange’

*w > *gʷ when initial or after a nasal

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 10:15 am
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ʔɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’

*j > ʔ

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qág
[gʷáŋ]
‘catkin orange’

Unstressed vowels lost

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:01 pm
by Lērisama
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’

ʔ → ∅

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qág
[gʷə́ŋ]
‘catkin orange’

Closed syllable neutralisation

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:38 pm
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ɰɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’

Epenthesis.

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qág
[gʷə̃́]
‘catkin orange’

Elision of coda nasals, leaving preceding nasalized vowels.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:50 pm
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ɣɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Spirantization of liquids before high vowels

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qág
[wə̃́]
‘catkin orange’

*gʷ > w

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:27 pm
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ʁɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Backing of velar fricatives.

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qág
[ṹ]
‘catkin orange’

wə > u

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 9:27 pm
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ʁíʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Place assimilation of central vowels to their environment

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 9:17 am
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ːʁíʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Lengthening of vowels in stressed open syllables.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:20 pm
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ːʁéʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

High-tone high vowels lower in unstressed ultimas

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:22 pm
by foxcatdog
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ːéʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

*ʁ lost

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:57 pm
by Lērisama
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀éːʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Length metathesis in hiatus

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 5:02 pm
by foxcatdog
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀éː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Final *ʃ lost

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 6:16 pm
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ʝéː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Epenthetic [ʝ] inserted before front vowels in hiatus.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 5:08 am
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[tɤ̀ˈʝéː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Stress reässigned to long vowels

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 9:43 am
by Lērisama
tö’űx
[tʝěː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Loss of unstressed vowels, with tones floating rightwards

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:32 am
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[tɕěː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Merger of stops followed by fricatives into affricates with voicing assimilation.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:23 am
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[tɕè]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

Long vowels with rising tone shorten and become low-toned

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:53 am
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[tɕèjə̀]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’

e > ejə in stressed open syllables.